the thing you dont realise is.. bitcoin is a PUBLIC ledger, you have no right to privacy in PUBLIC
First of all, thank you for mentioning the 'you have no right to Privacy' part. It explains your mentality and why you are fighting so much against us.
Anyway. The thing you do not realize is, you DO have a right to Privacy in public.
Or, do I have the right to watch you while you are doing what ever in a public toilet stall? Do I have the right to sit 5 inches behind you at an ATM while you are withdrawing from it? Do I have the right to snoop in on your conversations at the park? As in, the right to sit 10 inches away from you and your friend and wherever you go I stay there too? Do I have the right to snoop on your phone screen while you are sitting on a bench?
If I am a public personality and I want to not be recognized for Privacy reasons, does this mean I have no right to wear a cap and sunglasses?
if you want privacy you have to create that privacy for yourself away from the PUBLIC
(this common sense notion applies to many things in the real world)
And this is exactly where Mixers, Coin Joins, Atomic Swaps, Bisq et cetera come as the solution to your exact words! I create that Privacy for myself. I interact with Bisq users or Atomic Swap users who are just like me so I can have my Privacy and they can too.
this provenance chain of custody of value that coins transfer to, from one address to the next is defined as having a taint of X based on certain things of its history
and a utxo's 'taint' is rated as a scale and can go from white(clean) gray(suspicious) dark(dirty)
taint is not a verbage to say its dirty by default.. as taint is not a yes/no thing.
Taint defined by who? I have used most of the well known Wallets and NONE of them have EVER mentioned even a single time a thing about 'Taint'. Mycelium, Electrum, Bitcoin Core, Unstoppable, Bread, Coinbase even back when I first started! I visited so many Block Explorers and none of them have ever mentioned a single thing about 'Taint' either. Blockchair, Blockchain, you name it.
Bitcoin has no TAINT concept. This is an invented term by who? Why would I care about this concept if it has nothing to do with Bitcoin itself? On the same note is Know Your Customer, which is also an invention. Do I need Know Your Customer to send you Bitcoin? NO. If I download Bitcoin and use it, is there any 'Taint' to worry about? Or, is it present any where at all? NO.
Then why the hell would I care about it again?
the reason financial monitoring analyst services do actually analyse and tag utxos with a taint of x is because bitcoin became defined by law as currency around 2014-ish
You are silly if you think that is the case.
Banks are moving TRILLIONS of Dollars related to Money Laundering and other illegal activity, pretty much all countries are corrupt, State Whistle blowers die in weird circumstances, Politicians make millions or even billions of Dollars in illegal Money. But Bitcoin, which is barely even used at all as a Currency and the illicit segment of all Transactions probably amounts to less than 1 percent of the total illegal Money of only the examples I gave above, is getting restrictions over restrictions and absurd regulations. Bitcoin is however the head of all Evil, the head of all danger and Money Laundering.
Now imagine how many out of the whole number of Bitcoin Transactions happen through Mixers. The amounts are so low they are a drop in the ocean compared to what I just mentioned above. Yet, Bitcoin is still the one they want more control over. Only because it became defined by law as a Currency in 2014?
Sure.
if you dont want services monitoring your stash as much and you dont want them tagging your stash, you are probably better off avoiding using mixers that services get triggered by. and instead learn all the triggers(from source info or regulations, not bloggers emotional rants) and then avoid the triggers and then you can just hide in public amongst the masses of other transactions.. (vanish into the crowd)
OR, I can live head ache free and avoid Services that apply the nonsense concept of Taint or Know Your Customer, use Mixers or other obfuscating methods and just not care because there is nothing to trigger in a Peer to Peer Transaction anyway. Bitcoin was supposed to be used Peer to Peer. I am using it that way and I have not had a SINGLE problem in the past many years although I exchanged Bitcoin for other Cryptocurrencies, I traded Peer to Peer et cetera.